Interview with SIRENA VICTIMA (San Francisco, CA)

A three-piece post-punk band based in the San Francisco area, Sirena Victima is touring down the coast and stopping at FUNZONEin Santa Barbara on 9/11/2016. Each member of the band chatted with KCSB’s Spencer VH and talked about their influences, the band’s history and the best bands from their hometown.

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KCSB: What is the history of Sirena Victima? How did the band come together? Did any members play in previous bands together?

MEGAN: We met through friends. Candace and I played in a project called Straight Dudes for a few month, no internet presence tho.MARISELA: Candace and I met when another band I was in played a show at El Rio and she did our sound. We exchanged numbers another time when I saw Candace’s other band. We started jamming then asked Megan to join literally a couple days after I met her.

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KCSB: How has coming from the San Francisco area helped shape your sound?

MEGAN:I was born and raised in the Bay Area. This awesome place has nurtured the rocker within since I was a teen.MARISELA: I’m from LA, but have been in the Bay since 2009. San Francisco has such a wide variety of music and music scenes. So much support and so many talented beautiful friends.CANDACE: It’s been great. A lot of support out here even though the city is changing, we’re still fighting the fight.

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KCSB: What are you most excited about seeing on this tour? Have you played in any of the cities before?

MEGAN:SO excited for Funzone. Also stoked for Reno! The only city I’ve played in before in San Jose, and that was only once.MARISELA: FUNZONE!!! Batting cages! Excited for Merced too. I love the smaller towns.CANDACE: I’ve played in Reno and I’m really excited for Funzone!

KCSB: Santa Barbara has a very small music scene. What is it like being a part of a large city’s scene?

MEGAN: It feels like our scene is actually kind of small, but maybe just our brand of punk is limited. There’s def. a lot of bands we wouldn’t fuck with,MARISELA: Def. wont fuck with some bands. Also, everyone keeps asking everyone to jam cause a lot of our friends are so talented. So it’s kinda tight knit for us.CANDACE:Large city scene still has hella small venues.

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KCSB: FUNZONE in Santa Barbara is located at a batting cages. Who in the band is most likely to hit a home run?

MEGAN: As an AVID baseball fan, I’m going to vote for myself. However, you never know if one of these hard hitters will surprise you,MARISELA: I vote Megan tooCANDACE: Megan

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KCSB: Lastly, which bands in your area do you think are putting out the best music that people should be checking out?

Sirena Victima’s newest release ‘Sirena Victima’ was released via their Bandcamp page on 07/06/2016. They will be playing at FUNZONE in Santa Barbara on 09/11/2016 with Young Parent (Ventura, CA) and Bearcats (Arroyo Grande, CA). You can find Sirena Victima on Facebookas well.